Reply #23: I think criminal prosecution might be too tough. [View All]

[Turner Ashby]

For a lawyer, equally bad is simple disbarment proceedings, and the outcome is much easier. Attorneys are pretty vicious when they are dragged through the mud by these bozos. They make the whole profession look like a joke, and they make good attorneys like Iglesias the fall guys. And often, if disbarment is big enough, as in covered by the media, which it would be, then criminal charges would follow. Plus, the attorney would have no cover, except pleading the 5th, since it is a civil proceeding. Once they plead the 5th, they are sunk, since the only reason why you plead the 5th in the mind of the public, is because you are guilty. As an attorney, I don't like pulling that trick, but since this Administration was into enemy combatants, I'm into "live by the sword, die by the sword, no pity".